WONDER WHY SO MANY

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The video likely resonated due to its provocative and critical take on cultural issues, using strong language and historical comparisons to engage viewers in a conversation about identity and societal impact within the black community.

Summary

The speaker discusses how black culture has evolved, leading to negative perceptions and societal issues. They contrast the aspirational figures of the past (pastors, entrepreneurs, fathers) with current figures like rappers and film producers, arguing that the glorification of negative aspects within black culture has led to a widening of disparities and a lack of positive role models.

Structure

1Introduction of the problem: people recoiling from black culture.
2Critique of current black culture and its negative influences.
3Historical comparison: aspirational figures of the past vs. present.
4The shift in role models and the impact on societal disparities.
5Conclusion: the current state of black culture and its consequences.

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WONDER WHY SO MANY PEOPLE RECOIL AWAY FROM US. FROM US BECAUSE OF THE COLOUR OF OUR SKIN. THAT'S FOOLISH. THEY RECOIL AWAY FROM US BECAUSE OUR CULTURE SUCKS. HMM. AND I KNOW THAT'S. THAT'S A LOT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE TO BECAUSE WE'RE. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE NICE. VERY P C. CULTURE. YEAH, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET THAT FROM ME. OUR CULTURE. BLACK CULTURE SUCKS. IT JUST DOES. NOBODY WANTS TO LIVE AROUND IT. WE HAVE TO LOOK AT HOW BLACK CULTURE HAS SO PUT AN IMPRESSION IN PEOPLE'S MINDS THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THEY WANNA GET AWAY FROM. YEP. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH. IT'S 100% CULTURAL. THE BLACK CULTURE TODAY IS IN SUCH SHAMS THAT IT CAUSES PEOPLE TO RECOIL AWAY FROM IT. BEFORE THE 1960S, THE MAN TO ASPIRE TO COMMUNITY WAS THE PASTOR, THE ENTREPRENEUR, AND THE FATHER. THOSE WERE THE THREE. WOW. UM, WHAT WE'VE MANAGED TO DO SINCE THE 60S, GOING INTO THE 70S, THERE WAS SOMETHING CALLED BLACK EXPLOITATION FILMS. BLACK EXPLOITATION FILMS WERE FILMS THAT GLORIFIED THINGS THAT USED TO BE TABOO AND BLACK CULTURE, NAMELY PIMPING, HUSTLING, DRUG SELLING, BEING A DEGENERATE. THEY GLORIFIED ALL THESE THINGS IN THE 70S FILMS. AND IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT THE WHITES OR THE JEWS WERE DOING NO, YOU HAVE BLACK TOO WILLING AS YOU GET INTO THE 80S AND INTO YOU HAVE THE INTRODUCTION OF GANGSTER RAP AND YOU HAVE THE INTRODUCTION OF ALL THESE THINGS WHICH ARE LEANING HEAVY INTO THIS DEGENERATE CULTURE. BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS FROM THE 40S OF BLACK FAMILIES AND WHITE FAMILIES, YOU SEE NO DISTINGUISHABLE DIFFERENCE. THEY DRESS THE SAME, THEY LOOK THE SAME, THEY WALK THE SAME, THEIR FAMILIES THE SAME. EVERYTHING'S THE SAME. THERE'S NO. THERE'S NO EMPHASIS ON BEING BLACK AND BEING SEPARATE AND BEING DIFFERENT. UNTIL THE 70S WITH THE SAY IT LOUD, I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD. THIS KIND OF LIKE LEANING INTO BLACKNESS, WEARING THE AFRICAN GARB, NAMING YOUR KIDS AFRICAN SOUNDING NAMES. YOU HAVE THIS KIND OF DESIRE TO SEPARATE OURSELVES, TO BE OTHER THAN. WOW. THE. THE. THE RESULTS OF THAT? WELL, YOU SEE A WIDENING OF DISPARITIES. THIS IS WHAT THOMAS SOWELL TALKS ABOUT. THE FACT THAT THREE OUT OF FOUR KIDS WERE GROWING UP IN A HOUSEHOLD IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY. NOW WE'RE IN A SITUATION WHERE 70+ PERCENT OF BLACK KIDS ARE GROWING UP WITH AND NO FATHER IN THE HOME. EXPLAIN THIS OTHER THAN GOVERNMENT'S THE ENEMY SHIFTING AND CULTURE. YEAH. AND SO WHERE WE USED TO LOOK TO OUR FATHERS, ENTREPRENEURS AND PASTORS AS AN EXAMPLE OR AN SOMETHING TO ASPIRE TO BE. WE NOW LOOK TO THE RAPPERS, THE FILM PRODUCERS AND THINGS OF THIS NATURE, UM, THEY'RE MAKING A LOT WHICH THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU'LL NEVER HEAR ME, TALK NEGATIVELY ABOUT SOMEBODY MAKING MONEY. UM, BUT THAT IN, IN A LOT OF IS ENOUGH TO PUT THEM IN A PLACE OF HIGH REGARD AND HIGH STATUS. AND SO FROM THERE, WE THEN LOOK AT THEIR LIFESTYLE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE ASPIRE TO BE.

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Transcript

I wonder why so many people recoil away from us. They recoil away from us because of the color of our skin. That's foolish. They recoil away from us because our culture sucks. Hmm. And I know that's. That's a lot for a lot of people to because we're. We're supposed to be nice. We live in a very PC culture. Yeah, but you're not gonna get that from me. Our culture. Black culture sucks. It just does. Nobody wants to live around it. We have to look at how black culture has so put an impression in people's minds that that's something they wanna get away from. Yep. And that's something that they want to be associated with. It's 100% cultural. The fact is, black culture today is in such shams that it causes people to recoil away from it. Before the 1960s, the man to aspire to in the black community was the pastor, the entrepreneur, and the father. Those were the three. Wow. Um, what we've managed to do since the 60s, going into the 70s, there was something called black exploitation films. Black exploitation films were films that glorified things that used to be taboo and black culture, namely pimping, hustling, drug selling, being a degenerate. They glorified all these things in the 70s films. And it wasn't something that the whites or the Jews were doing. No, you have black too willing to play as you get into the 80s and into the 90s, you have the introduction of gangster rap and you have the introduction of all these things which are leaning heavy into this degenerate culture. If you look at black and white photos from the 40s of black families and white families, you see no distinguishable difference. They dress the same, they look the same, they walk the same, their families the same. Everything's the same. There's no. There's no emphasis on being black and being separate and being different. Until the 70s with the say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. This kind of like leaning into blackness, wearing the African garb, naming your kids African sounding names. You have this kind of desire to separate ourselves, to be other than. Wow. The. The. The results of that? Well, you see a widening of disparities. This is what Thomas Sowell talks about. The fact that three out of four kids were growing up in a household in the black community. Now we're in a situation where 70+ percent of black kids are growing up with and no father in the home. How is it that you explain this other than government's the enemy shifting and culture? Yeah. And so where we used to look to our fathers, entrepreneurs and pastors as an example or an something to aspire to be. We now look to the rappers, the film producers and things of this nature. Um, they're making a lot which there's nothing wrong with. You'll never hear me, talk negatively about somebody making money. Um, but that in, in a lot of our minds is enough to put them in a place of high regard and high status. And so from there, we then look at their lifestyle, and that's what we aspire to be.